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The Silent Isle

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Here's a book that will make you think a lot. Each chapter is basically an essay on a single topic- society, friendship, literature, morality, love, art and many more things. Sometimes he'll tell something that happened to him, or something that someone said to him, and then write a chapter on his thoughts of that event. He writes simply enough so anyone can understand what he's trying to say, but at the same time it's obvious that he's very intelligent and has been around a lot. The only thing I didn't like is his occasional mention of the religion he subscribes to and the god he believes in. I'd think that someone like him would be able to get along without that stuff.

It's a very long book, so plan to spend lots of time with it if you read the whole thing. I read the first half straight through but then changed to reading just 1 or 2 chapters a day, and I think it works best to read it that way. The whole book is simply one person's thoughts on various subjects, so there's no way to tell that it was written almost a century ago. Everything in it applies to today just as well as the author's own time.